Ligonier Banner., Volume 31, Number 1, Ligonier, Noble County, 9 April 1896 — Page 2

o' e 8 \‘ The Ligonier Banner, LIGONIER, : 3 INDIANA. . : M. PEeRrRrOTIN, director of the Mt. Mounier observatory, near Nice, has made some observations -confirming Schiaparelli’s view that the planet Venus rotates on her axis every 200 days or so, that is to say, in about the period of her revolution round the sun. Pergotin makes the time from 195 to 224 days. @ ¢ % : TueE French government has turned earnest attention to replanting the barren mountains in France with trees, in the hope that within the next generation the treeless mountains will be cov= ered with foliage. This can not but have a beneficial effect on the climate. It will also do much to prevent the damage done by mountain torrents. .

A BrONZE statue of Gen. Hancock, which is to be erected in Washingfon, has been lying at a freight hou% in ' that fi';ty for several days.. H. J. [Ellicott, the sculptor, recently refused to pay $6O to a man who claimed to be publishing a biographical account of celebrities, and the latter- has levied upon the statue for the alleged debt.

THE national saengerfest to be held in Pittsburgh in June is to, have a grand chorus, ‘unaccompanied by orchestra, sing ‘‘The Old Folks at Home,” the proceeds to go to the monument fund for the author, Stephen C. Foster. The fund now amounts to about $5,006 and the memorial will no doubt be worthy of America’s most popular song writer. ' ,

OxE of the largest orders for steel rails that have been placed in the Chicago market for several years was given recently by the.lllinois Central Railroad Co. to the Illino,iL Steel Co. Both sides are reticent about the affair and will give no figures, but it is known that the order was not far from 15,000 tons, or enough tolay 150 miles of track. '

- THEE arch span of the new bridge soon to be built across the Niagara gorge will be 80 fget long, and the center of the arch will be 170 feet abeve' low water. . The floor of the bridge will be 46 feet wide, affording room for two trolley tracks in the middle, an eightfoot roadway on either sige of these tracks, and a sidewalk 3 feet 9 inches wide on each outer side of the bridge.

Tae bridge to be built over the Tennessee river at Knoxville is to be a remarkable structure in many respects. It is to be built entirely of pink marble from near quarries. It will be 1,600 feet long, with one arch of 240 feet, 20 feet longer than any other arch in the world. - At its highest point it is to be 150 feet above the water, and- it is to have a roadway 50 feet wide.

Tae Mammoth cave is getting to be a gigantic bee hive. Prof. Snider says: *The last time I went through the cave I took both the long and short routes. At several places there was rather {too many bees for me to feel entirely ¢omfortable, although I was not attacked by any of them. If the cave should be explored for honey some rich finds would undoubtedly be made. The bees are increasing constantly.”

PriNcEsS KHNoUMIT AND ITA can hardly be said to be up to date, as they lived in Egypt some 500 B. C., but their mummies, recently discovered by M. de Morgan, prové that however varium et mutabili women may be_according to Virgil they have ever loved the jeweler, as the jewels of the two princesses in'the shape of diadems and necklaces are exceedingly beautiful and in workmanship equal the best of modern times.-

MARK TwAIN, who went abroad a few months ago practically a bankrupt, and who was lately reported to be dangerously sick at Bombay, is now well again -and on his way to Cape Town. His lecture tour among the antipodes has been a financial success, while he has just sold the copyright of a new book for $50,000. Mark is excusable for launghing at his own jokes, and in this instance the world laughs with Him. @

- A FEMALE patient presented herself at a French hospital for a rebgllious hiccough, whichhad resisted all treatment for four days. She was asked to show. her tongue, and it was noticed that with the putting out of the tongue the hiccough ceased. The same thing has been since tried, and with success in other cases. All that is necessary-ap-parently is to strongly push the tongue out of the mouth and hold it so for a minute or two. ; :

GEN. JouN GiBBON, retired, United States army, who died recently, bequeathed to John Gibbon, jr., the table .upon which the agreement of surrender'between Gen. Lee-and Gen. Grant was drawn at Appomattox. - Gen. Gibbon . was appointed by Gen. Grant as the representative of the union to draft the articles of surrendeér. Col. Charles Marshall represented the confederate side. The participants in the surrender divided among themselves the most important implements used in that historic act, Gen. Gibbon taking the table and Col. Marshall the inkstand. '

OXNE of the treasurés in the rooms of - "the American board of commissioners for foreign missions in New York was ' a cabinet of curios gathered by missionaries. In this cabinet was a collection of idols from the Hawaiian islands. These images, all of the most hideous aspect, have for more than half a century attracted the attention of visitors. They were sent to the rooms of the board soon after the first missionaries ~ from America set foot on the Sandwich islands in 1820, and have received the - greatest care. They have been sold to the listorical society of Honolulu for 38,000». & G ¢ ‘ » " A BURYING-GROUND belonging to the late stone age has recently been discov- . ered near Worms. Up to the present about séventy graves have been examined, bub not the slightest trace of metal has been found. Arm-rings of blue and gray slate were buried with the bodies. In hardly a single case ' was there missing from the women's graves the primitive corn-mill, consist~ ~ ing of two stones, the grinding stone, and theé grain crusher. The men's ~ graves ¢ontained - weapons and ime ~ plements, _ 2‘;"“’ ‘with whets ' stones and bones for sharpening pure L R Afi@mfifilfifiéi""“fi L R

S Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. - The Proceedings of the First Session. Washington, April I.—The expected debate on the resolution for inquiry into recent bond issues did not take place yesterday. The post oftice appropriation bill, carrying $93,000,000. was considered in part. In the house a bill was introduced requiring railroads running night service to accomuiodate the poor class of passengers with sleeping berths'at very cheap rates. The sucdry civil bill was further discussed. Washington, April 2.—Senator Cali (Fla.) offered a joint resolution in the senate yesterday directing the sending of an adequate naval force to Cuba to put an end to barbarities and instructing the president to notify Spain that the United Stites will forcibly intervene unless murder and outrage cease. The post - office’ appropriation bill was further considered. In thc house an amendment to the sundry civil bill providing for the purchase and repair of the house in whichAbrahaam Lincoin died was adopted. = £ Washington, April 3.—The post office appropriation bill served to bring ont some sharp discussion in the senate yesterday on the propriety of abolishing country post offices and absorbing them as branches of city offices, After a speech by Senator Elkins advoeating subsidies and other means of extending American commerce on the seas the bill went over. The Indian appropriation bill was reported. In the house the sundry civil bill was passed, as wasalso a bill to reimburse A. P. Brown, late postmaster at Lemars, la., for losses sustained by robbery. Washington, April 4—The senate was not in session _yesterday. The ‘house revived the agitation of the question of Cuban belligerency in connection with the conference report of the Cuban resolutions. Mr. Hitt (IlL.) spoke at'length in favor of the insurgents, and Mr. Boutelle (Me.) argued against the resolutions. Speaker Reed made a ruling that a majority of the members of the house who are living at the time any cquestion of a quorum comes up shail constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. At the cvening session private pension bills were considered.

FROM WASHINGTON.

The statement of the. public debt issued on the Ist showed that the debt increased $5,274,780 during thg ' month of March. The cash b.alancf in 'the treasury was $874,969,947. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasuty, amounts to $942,342,253. . The president has approved the joint resolution autheorizing Benjamin Harrison to accept medals from Spain and Brazil. ' o

- Throughout the United States the money - order transactions during the last quarter of 1895 beat all previous records in volume, the receipts aggregatiag $105,755,971. :

A ‘statement that President Cleveland had written a letter declining to be again a candidate for the presidency was said to be false. ;

‘A quarterly statement of business failures inh the United States shows 4,031, with liabilities of $57,425,135, against 3,802 last year, with liabilities of $47,813,683. Restriction of distribution of staple merchandise and unsatisfactory mercantile. collections continued to be the leading characteristics of general trade in the United States. :

. Exchanges ‘'at the leading clearinghouses in the United States during the week cnded on the 3d aggregated $951,976,788, against $896,859,158 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1895, was 6.0.

THE EAST.

In the streams of central and western New York floods did immense damage. At the age of 67 years Orestes Cleveland, of Jersey City, N. J., died.. In 1868 he was a member of congress, and secured ‘the passage of the act provid ing for the centennial exhibition at Fhiladelphtia.

‘At the state election in Rhode Island the republicans reelected Gov. Lippitt by over 10,000 plurality. The democrats will have three members in the legislature, a loss of five over last year. In February 11,832 immigrants arrived in New York, an increase of about 65 per cent. over the arrivals during February, 1895. In a Brooklyn (N. Y.) tenement house fire ten persons perished by suffocation. . :

The death of Burt Van Horn, a former member of congress, occurred at his home in Lockport, N.¥. ~ .

Returns from the Rhode Island election show that- Gov. Lippitt (rep.) received a plurality of 11,278, an increase of 467 over his plurality of a year ago. By the falling of a lift at a mine near Pottsville, Pa., nine men were injured, three of them f{atally. . = At the age of 106 years Peter F. Conkling died a 1 Middletown, N. Y. The entire New Hampshire delegation to the republican national convention say that they will unitedly favor the nomination of Mr. Reed. j

At Lowell, Mass., No. 5 mill of the Lawrence Mayufacturing *company shut down, thrcwing over 2,000 operatives out of work. ° . ;

WEST AND SOUTH. In San Francisco Mrs. Olga Deuss killed herseif azd three children, the eldest being eight years old, by gas asphyxiation. She was jealous of her husband. R izl

The 100th anniversary of the founda tion of Dayton, 0., was cclebrated. The republicans of the Fifteenth Ohin district renominated H. C. Van Voorhis for congress. '

Fromn every county in Ohio reports fndicate the smallest wheat crop ever produced in the state. At Duluth, Minn;, and Superior, Wis,, all traftic was blockaded by a snowstorm, and in St. Paul street car lines were tied up. ; Throughout the greater part of Colorado over eight inches of snow fell. A west-bound express train on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad fell into the hands of a gang of train robbers just east of Garrett, Ind., but they were driven away without securing much booty. On the Bt. Louis & San Francisco railroad a frain was held up three miles east of Lebunon, Mo., by three masked men and the express safe blown open and robbed of $1,277. ; Twe boilers of the Planters’ oil mill at Greenville, Miss,, exploded, wreckzmthe -mill property and killing five

At his home in Jetlerson, Ind., Daniel Baugh celebrated the 107th anniversary of his birth. : ;

Smelter returns for the first quarter show that the gold production of Colorado for 1896 will reach $30,000,000.

Advices from northern Wisconsin told of a complete snow blockade 6n many railroads. The drifts were from ten to twelve feet deep. 4 e At Corning 0., Thomas Brannigan, a well-known business man, shot his wife fatally and then kiiled himself. Jealousy was the cause. i

The republicans nominated Walter L. Weaver, of Springtield, 0., for coagress from the Seventh district on the 123 d ballot. Allie and Easter Anderson and their three children, together with two Lorses, were drowned by a freshet in Powell’s river in Lee county, Va. A prominent Spaniard, Jose Ramon Del Valle, whe resided in Matanzas, Cuba, arrived with his family in Key West, Fla., and said it was impossible to longer endure the outrages committed by the Spanish troops. . He told of many brutal deeds, and declared that peaceful, unarmed people were ruth lessly slaughtered and the murders were called victories. ; '

Flames in Brunswick, Ga., destroyed wharves, warehouses and business blocks valued at $500,000. , :

A steam pipe of the engine on the monitor Husscar burst at Valparaiso, Chili, killing eight of the crew and injuring nine others. : . It was decided at a mass-meeting to hold an international exposition in 1897 in Montreal, Can. 2

The legislature.of lowa defeated a bill to legalize the manufacture of liquor in the state. The firm of Wade, Davis & Co., of Plainville, Mass.,, manufacturing jewelers, failed for $lOO,OOO. A cloudburst on Little Sexton and Buffalo creeks in Kentucky did more damage than at first reported. Instead of four there were 15 persons who lost their lives.

An entire family of eight persons in Montcalm county, Mich., died from using the milk of cows afflicted with tuberculosis. . .

At? Tupelo, Miss., a negro about 18 years old was taken from jail by a mob and lynched for attempting to assault a prominent white woman.

The fifth annual convention in Chicago of the American Republican College league elected James M. Perkins, of Harvard university, as president, and resolutions were adopted declaring for protection, reciprocity and sound currency. _ G ‘

At Friend, Neb., Richard Ringer, a merchant, committed suicide when informed by doctors that he was afflicted with hydrophobia. :

At Clinton, 1111.,, Edward Polen, an Illinois Central employe, shot and instantly killed his wife and his wife’s mother, Mrs. William McMullen, and then jumped in front of a moving train, but was not fatally injured. Family troubles were the cause. ‘

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

At his home in Friedrichsruhe, Germany, Prince Bismarck celebrated his 81st birthday. @ ° v In his address at the opening of the Mexican congress President Diaz strongly favored the Monroe doctrine of the United States and said it should be reaffirmed by all Ameriean republics. :

In his apnual report Rudolph Spreckles, president of the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar company, states that the world’s product of sugar this year will prebably be 1,000,000 tons short of the supply of several years past. S In the Rainy river in Canada Col. A. F. Naff, a United States deputy marshal, and his entire party of explorers, in all eight men, were drowned by breaking through the ice." o 8

~ Cuban advices say that in Havana death sentences were recently passed on 70 captured insurgents, who would be shot. It was also said that Gen. Weyler has no hopes of ending the war in less than two years. Cuba advices state that 17 political prisoners were shot in Fortress Cabanas in Havana and 26 more were soon to be executed. - ! !

LATER NEWS.

~ It was announced that England had concluded a treaty of alliance with Spain, and that Euroupe would soon be startled by the official announcement of this fact. . Mrs. Elizabeth TLeonard died at Moundsville, W. Va., aged 106 years, The Farmers’ bank, a private institution started at Decatur, 111., three years ago by Lewis B. Cassner, failed with liabilities of $128,000; assets, $185,000.

- A. W. Terrell, United States minister to Turkey, arrived in New York on the steamer Furst Bismarck. :

The national reform party will meet in Pittsburgh, Pa., on May 25 to nominate candidates for president and vice president. T

John G. Bagby, a member of the Forty-fourth congress, died at his home in Rushville, 111., aged 77 years. Arthur Bradley and Richard Ingram, two factory hands at Haverhill, Mass., engaged in a prize fight, and as a resuit the latter received a blow that killed him. -

‘A fire at Manila, in the Philippine islands, destroyed 4,000 houses and 30, 000 people were left homeless. - ~ Fire in the spring department of the Washburn & Moen Manufacturing company’s plant at Quinsigamond, Mass., caused a loss of $150,000. :

William and Alice Johnscn were burned to death in a prairie fire near Richfield, Kan. :

Adyvices from Washington say that Secretary Carlisle has writter a letter declinming to allow his name to be used as a candidate for the presidential nom:nation at the Chicago convention. The Wellandport (Ont.) flour mills were burned with their contents, the loss being $125,000. The stables of the Buffalo (N. Y.) Driving park were burned and 20 horses perished, among them being several valuable animals, especially Ellen 8., 2:1134, who was valned at $lO,OOO. A syndicate of Pennsylvania coal owners have made a successful exper:ment of shipping coal to Germany. Washington, April 6.—The _senate was not in session on Saturday. With the exception of an hour given over to miscellaneous business at the beginning of the session, the entive day and night sessions were devoted 1o a discussion of the wisdom, expediency and justiee of adopting the resolutions recognizing Cuban belligerency aud tendering the friendly offices of the United ‘Btates for the settement of the trouble.

- FIFTEEN VICTIMS. - Kentucky Cloudburst More Disastrous Than First Supposed. - Original Number of Reported Dead Now Quadrupled—Devastating Torrents - Sweep Away Homes of Farmers., . ‘Booneville, £y., April 4—The cloudburst ‘on Little Sexton and Buffalo creeks did more damage than at first reported. Instead of four there were certainly 15 persons who lost their lives, and possibly more. Sexton creek rises near Burning Springs and is one of the feeders of the south fork of the Kentucky river. It flows in some places through deep gorges in the rocks. Through these gorges the stream rushes, when in flood tide, with the speed of a race horse, and, striking the bottom lands below, spreads out with wonderful rapidity. j ' Five Drowned. ~ People little thought that the little brook would rise so rapidly or was capable of gathering such a volume of water. The cloudburst occurred up in the gorges. The water gathered in a moment and the wild flood poured down in a solid wall, carrying death and destruction in its path. On Sexton creek and its tributaries five were drowned. They are: Capt. J. S. J. Bull, Mrs. Wade Marders and child, two unknown. Capt. Bull was military instructor at Jackson institute. Ten More Victims. Buffalo creek is even more crooked and tortuous than Little Sexion, and in its torrent after the burst ten people are believed to have lost their lives. A great many logs were hurled ‘down with the tide, and these speedily knocked the cabins and outbuildings to pieces. The dead on Buffalo creek are: Mrs. George Gepson and three children, Will Burns’ two children, Miss Mary Garrett, two unknown and Mrs. John Crane. -

+A Manchester dispatch says that Goose creek has been higher than ever before known, showing that the rain was general throughout Owsley couuty. Over 100 farmers lost their houses and barns. Meat houses and all their feed being destroyed, it will be impossible for them to raise any crops this year. The v_al]&eys in this section are usually fertile and produce fine crops of corn and wheat. The people of this section have commenced to investigate the extent of the ruins and to make up a fund for the suffering inhabitants. The farms which the people deserted when they took to the mountains are barren, no signs of improvements being left. :

REPUBLICAN COLLEGE LEAGUE.

Declare for Sound Money, Protection and ‘ Cuban Belligerency.

Chicago, Aprii 4.—The delegates to the fifth annual convention of the American Republican College league began and conecluded the business that brought them to Chicago in two sessions Friday. The next convention will be held in Minpeapolis.” James Martin Perkins, of Haivard law school (senior class of ’96), was after a warm contest selected as president of the league for the coming year. :

The resolutions contain no indorsement of any particular candidate for the presidential nomination. They reaffirm the docirine of protection to American industries and the principles of commercial reciprocity as enunciated by James G. Blaine, indorse the Monroe doctrine and express sympathy with the Cuban revolutionists, coupled with the opinion that they are entitled to the granting of belligerent rights. The financial plank declares for an honest and sound national carrency, whose character shall in no way impair the national credit at home -or abroad. ;

_ A banquet at sthe Auditorium hotel in the evening was well attended. Addresses were made by several gentlemen, the most prominent being Senator Thurston, of Nebraska. Every reference to McKinley created such unbounded enthusiasm as to indicate easiiy the feeling of those present with reference to the contest for the presidential nomination.

TEN ARE DEAD.

Horrible Result of the Burning of a < Brooklyn Tenement. ' Brooklyn, N. Y., April 2.—The fourstory brick tenement house at No. 36 Union street, was burned at 3:30 o’clock Wednesday morning and ten persons lost their lives. There were 17 persons in the house at the time of the fire, seven of whom escaped. The following are the names of the dead: Nicolo Traglia, 58 years of age. Lina Traglia, 44 years of age. Dominio Traglia, four years old. —— Traglia, 17 days old. Camelia Caino, 25 years old. ‘ Augustin Buone, 44 years old. - Maria Buone, 35 years old. Fanny Buone, five years old. - Johanna Buone, 18 months old. Lina Calabria, 18 years old. The firemen drowned the fire out in a short time and without damage to the adjoining buildings. The bodies were removed by an undertaker at ten o’clock. They were badly burned, but not beyond recognition. The loss is about $4,000 to the building and its contents. The fire marshal wili make an investigation. ' o The National Banks. - . Washington, April I.—The enormous resources of the national banks of tha United States are shown in the last abstract of their condition, completed Tuesday, as on February 28, and made public by Comptroller Eckels. The 3,609 national banks had on February 28 $1,951,344,781 in loans and discounts; $192,036,933 in stocks and securities, a lawful money reserve of $337,259,922, of which $156,000,000 was in gold. Capital to the extent of $653,994,915: surplus fund of $247,178,188; undivided profits of $87,041,526; unpaid dividends of $l,233,315; individual deposits of $1,648,092,868, and bills payable of $20,104,667. . Refuses to Vacate. : -~ Washington, April 2.—The interior department authorities, upon receipt of a telegram from Secretary of State Bruce, of Arizona, that Gov. Hughes refused to vacate his office, on Wednesday sent telegrams to both gentlemen. That to Mr. Hughes again notifies him of his removal, and informs him that the president directs that his office be at once turned over to Secretary Bruce. The dispateh to Mr. Bruce directs him to take possession of the office as acting governor. . S - -‘-‘—*&*—W " el : Victim of Paralysis. : _ Indianapolis, Ind., April I.—~Thomas 0. Barbour, seeretary and treasurer of the Ghompmke; . Ohla Raiiroed oome pany, died here T'uesday night from a stroke of paralysis, Y b R T il ee 2 T

: - TRAIN- HELD UP. Masked Bandits Secure a Large Sum Near 5 Richland, Mo. _ St. Louis, April 2. —The 'Frisco fast express from the west which left Lebanon, Mo., 182 miles west of St. Louis; a little before one o’cleck Wednesday morning, was held up by three masked men near Richland, 22 miles east of Lebanon, about three o’clock in the morning. When the train was nearing Richland the engineer saw a bright red light down the track. He reversed the lever and applied the air brakes, and stopped the train. The engineer and fireman poked their heads out of the cab window to see what the trouble was. At that instant there was a flash and a bullet whizzed past the engineer’s head and buried. itseifin the wood work. A man sprang into the cab with a Winchester rifle and commanded the engineer and fireman to hold up their hands. Then he compelled the engineer to get down and heip the robbers into the express car. They made the engineer mount the platform and, with Winchesters prodding him from behind, call loudly to the messenger to open his car. It was not until several volleys had been poured into the car through ths door that the terrified messenger unbolted his door and admitted the robbers. The messenger declared that everything in the car worth taking was securely locked in the through safe, to which he did not possess the combination. The robbers produced from a bag a package of dynamite and went to work to blow the safé open. They worked for nearly an hour. After ‘'some time consumed in drilling the safe the first charge was exploded, creating a faint shock. In a few minutce a second and heavier shock did the work. The bandits cut the engine loose and started down the track. Engineer Price offered to go with them 10 take care of the engine, but they said they did not need him, as they knew something about engines. An eighth of a mile east of the train they left the engine and mounted their horses, which were picketed near by.

DIAZ FOR MONROE DOCTRINE

Strong Declaration by the President of Mexico in His Message.

City .of Mexico, April 2.—The Inost important part of the president’s message delivered Wednesday at the opening of congress is an allusion to the Anglo-Venezuela controversy and President Cleveland's message to congress. After reviewing atlength the Venezuela case and application of the Monroe doctrine President Diaz says: o

‘““The Mexican government eannot but declp.re its partiality for a dg‘ctrine which condemns any attacks upon the part cf the monarchies of Europe against the republics of America, against the independ-~ ent nations of this continent, now all subhject to popular form of government.. The whole of our history, and especially the struggle of our people to shake off the yoke of a foreign empire which is European both in its origin, form and resources and the torrents of bloodshed in that struggle, are sufficient testimony to the world of our love of independence and our abhorrence to all outside interference. It is our opinion that not to the United States alone belongs the obligation of assisting other republics of the hemisphers against the attacks of Europe, if such attacks are still to be considered as possible, but for the attainment of an end to which we all aspire. x “Each one of those republics ought by means of a declaration like that of President Monroe proclaim that every attack on the part of a foreign power with a view of curtailing the territory or independence or of altering the institutions of any one of the republics of America would be considered 'by the nation making such declaration as an attack upon itself, providfd that nation deliberately attacked or threatened in that manner, bespoke the aid of other nations opportunely. In this manner the doctrine now called by the name df Monroe would become the doctrine of America in the fullest sense of the word, end, although originating in the United States, would belong to the international law of this continent. As to the means to reduce this idea to practice, this is not the place or time to discuss them.”

SPRING APPROACHES.

With Tt Improvement in Business Has : Begun.

New York, April 4—R. G. Dun & Co., in their weekly review of trade say:

“The improvement expected with spring weather begins, though in some branches of -business scarcely visible. As consumels make spring purchases they must lessen stock and compel less buying. The stocks taken in advance of consumers’ demands last summer have been distributed far more slowly than was expected, but months of waiting have helped to lessen the load which it is-hoped spring buying will clear away. Apprehensions of foreign or financial difficulties have hindered, but are now scarcely felt. Gold exports af® rumored, but at this season are so far natural that they have no such power to cause alarm as they had in winter. The gigantic steel combination is expected to have a great influence in sustaining markets and stimulating confidence, an’.*. though such operations often miss the success they seek, they rarely fail to kindle speculative buying for a time. “Woolen manufacture. does not gain in orders, and a large part.of the machinery is stopped. Prices of wool have fallen % per cent. Cotton mills still pile up goods in advance of orders, as reductions in prrices have failed as yet to stimulate buying. Speculation [in products has been tame. Wheat has slightly advanced, and if later reports of injury from extensive frosts and storms prove correct, will advance more, though western receipts continue nearly 50 per cent. larger than last yvear, Corn exporis are large and receipts also heavy, but pork has declined 75 cents per barrel., Speculation in stocks has not been active, though railroads average nearly one dollar per share higher than last week. The regular quarterly state. ment of failures shows 4,031 with liabilitiesfiof $57,425,135, 'against 3,802 last year, with liabilities of $47,813,682."”" QUIT THE OLD ARMY. Brigadier Fielding;and Aids to Join Bal~ . lington Booth’s Volunteers. | Chicago, April 4.—Edward Fielding, brigadier general in command of the northwest division of the Salvation Army, and, with the exception of Commissioner Booth-Tucker, the most prominent officer in the forces in America, has resigned his commission and will join the forces of Ballington Booth’s Volunteers. The majority of his staff officers go with him, and the blow is conceded to bé the most severe which has been suffered by the Salvv%}qn Army since the recall of Commander and Mrs. Ballnigton Booth. Brigadier Fielding’s wi;? personal influence will now be exertéd in behalf of the new organization, and it is confidently predieted that the news of his resignation will cause a ' tremendous defection in theiranks of the army, not alone in his own division, but all over the country. Among the officers who ‘have resigned are: " - o Brig. Gen, Edward Filelding: i | /, Brig. Gen. Emma Fielding, Adjutant Washington Blackhurst, . Adjutant Chiristopher C, Herron., ' Ad_jut&htfjmer‘fhi"l"!etran. AR CrEmetgn DUReAn: i g e A ~ Lieut. Galloway. Bl M Brigadier Fielding forwarded his ‘resignation to. Commissioner Booth‘Tucker Thursday afternoon, and at the same time cabled his. declsion to; the ‘Londontheadquarters... - | v | ¢ o A IS PR S R B o e LSS S P At A PO R T T

lnternl_glgnul Lesson for April 12, 1896 Parable of the Great Supper — Luke 14:15-24, & [Arranged from Peloubet’s Notes.] CorLpeN TEXT.—Come, for all things are now ready.—Luke 14:17, 'TeE SEcTION.—Read Luke 14:1-35. The incidents recorded in the'chapter may be used to illustrate the lesson text, as follows: V. 16 receives light from two other | references to feasts, (1) the advice given. fu vs. 7-11, and (2) the persons invited in vs. 12-14; the excuses, vs. 17-20, are vain, while the redl reasons are found in the cross, vs. 26-33; the new invitation, vs.’ 21-23, is illustrated by the invitation in vs. 12-14; the exclusion, v. 24, is illustrated by the comparison to bad salt in vs. 34, 35. g‘?‘a(lii also, the similar parable in Matt TiME.—Probably in December, A. D. 29, or January. A. D. 30. ; ‘ Prace.—ln a pharisee’s house in Perea, on the way to Jerusalem by the fords of the Jordan neéar Jericho. : LESSON NOTES. I.—THE GosPEL FEAST.—Vs. 15, 16.— Jesus was present as a guest at a supper, or evening dinner, in a pharisee’s house. And when one of those who sat | at the supper heard of the blessing Christ had just said belonged to the ones who invited the poor and neglected to their feasts (and moved by the delightfui feast at which they were, suggesting the nobler feast), said to Jesus: “Blessed is he that shall eat Lread in the kingdom of (God.” Perkaps he felt assured that Limself and the other Jews were sure of that blessirg. Then Jesus spoke the parable of the lesson to show this Jew that while his thought was right, yet that he and the others were unconsciously refusing to join in that feast. So He represents ‘Gorl the Father, who prepares every good for His children and invites them to come and partake of His blessings, as a man who made a great supper. I{.—THE INVITATION.—Vs. 16, 17.—A preliminary invitation went out in order that the persons invited might have time to arrange their affairs so ag to leave the time of the feast open, and to make all necessary preparations. Then they could have no reasonable excuse for not going to the feast. The primary application was to the Jews who were learned in the Scriptures. It included all Gentiles who had been willing to learn from this special nation whom God had been training as the means of redeeming the world. In our day the guestsrepresent those who have had special advantages in Christian training, or who know of the blessings. i - In the east it is still customary, not only to give an invitation some time veforehand, but to send announcements at the proper time to inform the invited guests that all things are ready. For eack: of us all things are ready: the atonement made, thin mansion prepared, the Father willing to receive, the angels waiting’ to welcome, the doors open, the Holy Spirit present, duties awaiting. ‘“The servant” represents not only OChrist, but also the whole: order or class of God’s messengers. lIT.—THE INVITATION REJECTED.— \'s. 18-20. When the invitation had come they had accepted it, but mnow the servant was come they all “began to - make excuse.” .The (Greek word is the exact equivalent of our “to beg off.” They gave mno real reasons, but renlered the most plausible excuses they could find. The first excuse was on account of property. The man who zave it lived, as do all in that country, in a village.' He had bought a farm and “must needs go and see it,*not look it over, but see to its cultivation. The recond excuse was that of business. "his man had bought five yoke of oxen and he wanted to prove ‘them. His oxen could have waited, but he made his plans so as to have an excuse. The third excuse was that of domestic duties and enjoyments. He “had married a wife.” He could not take his Lride to a feast of men, nor did he wish to leave her at home. But he knew all this beforehand, and could easily have arranged to be present, had he so degired. Note that all were hindered by the wrong use of right things. There was no real incompatibility between the true enioyment of farm, merchandise or wife, and accepting the invitation; nor is there any between discipleship and the fullest use and truest enjoyment of earthly good.

IV.—THE WIDER INVITATION.—V.2I-24. When it was made known to the master that none of those who had been invited would come he command his servant to go out “into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.” In the east, rich in beggar, opulent in misery, without poorhonses, or hospitals, or other organized means of caring for and lessening misery, and with laws and social organism multiplying it, such a throng as is here described may be often seen in the city streets or squares. But still there was room. No one will ever be shut out of the Kingdom of God for want of room. The highways and hedges were without the city walls and refer to the Gentiles. The compelling force was argument, persuasion, love, entreaty. They were to overcomie the reluctance which these poor creatures would feel at so unexpected an invitatign to the feast of a great lord. It was too good to be true. The final teaching, is that the master’s house will be filled. Heaven will not stand empty because some may refuse to enter. ““None” of those who refused the invitation “shall taste of my sup per.” : X R

JUST ABOUT DOGS.

In old England it was said that one bulldog was a match for a bull; two could meet a wolf; three overcome a bear, and four a lion. : ; The taste of the dog is exceedingly dull and perverted. Even the niost luxuriously fed pets often resort to a diet of offal or carrion. . The most famous St. Bernard dog was named “Barry.” He saved 40 lives, and ‘his stuffed skin is now preservéd in & Berne museum. : ; « Everywhere in the Bible the dog is mentioned in terms of contempt, the reason being probably found in the character of the orie?tal dog. The Suliote of Germany, also called the boarhound, i one of the largest dogs known. Many specimens are four fect high at the shoulder. Many varieties of wild dogs have been ‘erossed with wolves, jackals and foxes, and thus have produced great numbers of hybrid varieties. - S __The lower canine teeth of the dog close in front of the upper, which gives 35 Aatu (e ighiaoms of rin 0 7y

. e : _ . Homéseeker's Excurslons to’ Kausas and : - Nebraska. y On April 7th, 21st and May sth, 1806, Homeseeker's Excursions will );)e'mn fr?g’ Missouri River points, and territory West of Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis, to stationk in Kansas and Nebraska, at one'farei‘plus $2.00, for the round trip. All who canshould take advantage of the cheap rates and in?j)ect the most productive corn lands in the nited States, which are for sale, by the Union Pacific Railway Company, ‘at from $2.50 to $lO.OO per acre,- on ten years’ time, only 1-10. down. . % Remember that the Kansas corn crop for 1895, with 8,000,000 acres in cultivation, yielded over 201,000,000 bushels, the estimated value of which is over $46,000,000, bein% ‘87,000,000 more than annual output of gold in the United States. i : Those taking advantage of the excursions, should take receipts for all railroad fare, and the portion paid over Union Pacific lines, will be refunded upon purchase of 820 acres. Information regarding rates can be dscertained from the nearestrailroad agent. . For mapsand pamphlets: descriptive of the lands, write to B. A. MCALLASTER, Land Commissioner, Omaha, Neb. .

“FATHER,” said the little boy, ‘‘every now and then I hear youtalkingaboutsomebody who was old enough to know better.”’ ‘““Yes; -my boy.” ‘‘What age is that, father?” And the old gentleman after some thought replied: ¢‘My son, there isn't any such thing. It’s like the golden age; purely, mythological.”—W ashington Star.

A Spring Trip South.

On April 7 and 21, and May 5, tickets will be sold from principal cities, towns and villages of the north, to all {)oint,s. on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad]in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and a portion of Kentucky, at one sin%g fare for the round trip. Tickets will good to return within twenty-one days, on payment of 2 to agent ut destination, and will allow* stop-over at any point on the south -bound trip. * Ask your ticket agent about it, and if he cannot sell you excursion tickets write to C. P. Atmore, General Passenger Agent, Louisville, Ky., or J. K. Ridgely, N. W. P. A., Chicago, Il

Troucit plunged in ills and exercised in care, yet never let the noble mind despair.— Phillips. , .

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Tar Bible tells the sluggard to go to the ant, but in these days most of them go to the father-in-law.—Atlanta Constitution.

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IN advertising ‘‘continuous” is the word., Plunges are rarely successful.—Brains, |

It is easier to find fault than to kno'w} what to do for it.—L. A. W. Bulletin. ‘

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